Does the preview pane expose us to spammers

[billym]

A spammer called into the Tom Lykis show today and mentioned that HTML
rendered within the Outlook preview page exposes us to communicating
information back to the spammer, such as the fact that we've looked at the
SPAM, address, helps them with their spam hit statistics, etc.

Does anyone know if this is true and, if so, why can't Microsoft disable
this HTML capability when rendering in a preview pane?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

It depends on the version of Outlook.

The caller was probably talking about web bugs - Outlook 2003blocks them,
other versions do not.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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